They have left no traces behind them, and the few records of their joyless lives which history has preserved, are merely the gleanings of uncertain tradition.

The thinking mind pauses in sadness to contemplate the spectacle of these weary ages, when his brother man was the most ferocious of beasts, and when all the discipline of life tended only to sink him into deeper abysses of brutality and misery.

There is here a problem in the divine government which no human wisdom can solve.
There is consolation only in the announcement that what we know not now, we shall know hereafter.

All these diverse nations blending have formed the present Russians.
Along the shores of the Baltic, these people assumed the name of Scandinavians, and subsequently Normans.

Toward the close of the eighth century, the Normans filled Europe with the renown of their exploits, and their banners bade defiance even to the armies of Charlemagne.